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Savills has snapped up an independent London estate agency in what is likely to be one of the last deals of...

So this is (almost) it. Next week may be a quiet one for business as vendors and landlords alike begin to...

Property analysts say ‘flippers’ - those who buy new homes and sell them quickly, hopefully for a profit - are losing...

Communities have missed out on more than 10,000 affordable homes in the past three years as a result of government rules...

Hello and welcome to the latest Property Jobs Today - the last one in November. Career moves tend to slow this time...

Every cloud has a silver lining, and a high end prime central London estate agent appears to have found one from...

London estate agency JOHNS&CO, which specialises in new homes, has opened its seventh office in the capital - the announcement came...

A leading property consultancy has called out Manchester as the location which has seen the highest urban price growth of anywhere...

Hello and welcome to a bumper edition of Property Jobs Today, your weekly insight into the key moves within our industry. Everyone...

One of London’s best known estate agencies marks its 25th anniversary this month, having started with just two branches in one...

A service which describes itself as an alternative to part exchange has been launched to facilitate sales to ‘corporate property buyers’. It’s...

London agency Stirling Ackroyd has announced its third acquisition in the course of a year. It’s only 15 months ago that Stirling...

Is Help To Buy going to remain in existence for much longer? Question marks over the scheme’s future are being raised through...

The vast majority of new-build houses are to be sold as freehold with ground rents for new leases capped at £10...

One estate agent has described the latest price fall announced by the Halifax as “quite a retreat” for the housing market...

One of London’s highest profile and most outspoken estate agent chiefs has scolded ‘Maybot’ Theresa May on the day she is to...

A website has officially launched this morning, aiming to push the concept of US-style For Sale By Owner online property marketing...

The government, which only recently said there would be one Ombudsman covering the entire housing sector, has announced that there is...

We’ve all heard the comments - the countryside is being covered in concrete, new houses are springing up everywhere, our green...

Hello and welcome to this week’s Property Jobs Today, the latest weekly catch-up with moves within and across our industry. A quick...

The Land & New Homes Network has announced a part exchange and assisted move collaboration with Relocation Agent Network in a...

Tili does all the work to deliver a smooth home move for customers and income for agents. An innovative and easy to...

Hello and welcome to this week’s PJT, your chance to catch up on the major moves in the agency industry over...

Any day now we’ll hear the date for the Autumn Budget: it may be delayed to wait for a Brexit deal...

The Property Ombudsman has urged the government to bring the new homes build sector under consumer redress. New builds are not currently...

Oakwood Homes, a four-branch sales and lettings agency operating across East Kent, has acquired Parkland Estates, a single-branch firm based in...

Hello and welcome to this week’s PJT, the place where you find all the key agency industry moves over recent days. Please...

‘Up’ is the key word in Rightmove’s figures for the first half of 2018, released to the City and to shareholders...

One of the property industry’s best known figures, Richard Berridge, has teamed up with estate agency My London Home to lead...

It may not be a good idea for a journalist to be personal about a politician, so I write about our...

Amid the headline-grabbing political manoeuvring over Brexit, a policy proposal which could have serious ramifications for private landlords, and those who...

Former housing minister Dominic Raab, who yesterday left his post after just six months in office, may have had a lucky...

Hello, and welcome to this week’s regular Monday summary of all the major jobs moves in our industry.  The industry is still...

A senior agent says an innovative business model allows him to work in prime central London - even though he lives in France.  Former...

Some of Britain’s top property experts say bureaucracy, lack of cooperation and a dwindling number of smaller builders are the main...

The government says its funding schemes such as Help To Buy will no longer be applied to what it calls “unjustified...

In what is regarded as his most important speech since becoming housing minister, Dominic Raab has told a conference that it...

High-end housebuilder Berkeley Homes says “macro and political uncertainty, including Brexit” is leading to some developers previously building in London to...

Savills has suggested that it may be time for a fundamental review of what’s left of the flagship policy of Margaret...

100 years ago, 90% of the UK population rented a home. Today, that figure has flipped, and over two thirds are...

One of the three official redress bodies serving the estate and lettings agency industry has conducted a survey of complaints across...

James Brokenshire - yesterday appointed Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government - joins the rank of senior politicians...

An insider in a senior position in Humberts says the weekend announcement that it was in talks with proposed administrators to...

Hybrid agency Emoov is now offering a tailored sales package aimed at attracting developers listing and selling new homes. Rather than paying...

Hello and welcome to this week’s Property Jobs Today, our regular Monday look at key moves inside our industry. Everyone mentioned here...

Barclays is next week launching a so-called ‘green mortgage’ which links the loan to the Energy Performance Certificate rating of the...

For part two of the 'Day in the life of' series, I spoke to Peter Kavanagh, who first joined Romans in...

One day, I’ll sit down to write for Estate Agent Today and I won’t express my dismay at the lack of...

Estate agency Jackson-Stops says it has discovered precisely how many existing home owners understand the difficulties facing first time buyers in...

  Chancellor Phillip Hammond claims over 60,000 first time buyers have already benefitted from the stamp duty relief he announced at his...

Ombudsman Services, which recently announced it was quitting its role as one of three approved redress schemes for estate and lettings...

There has been a 19.9 per cent increase in new property listings, with some locations seeing as many as 80 per...

An estate agent and former chairman of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors says the government’s latest drive to build new...

London estate agency chain Dexters is expanding its brand once again thanks to a new partnership with Stirling Ackroyd New Homes.  Dexters...

Land and investment deals achieved by Connells Group in 2017 will add a further 2,750 units to its new homes pipeline,...

Rightmove has reported another very large leap in revenue in 2017 and a modest rise in agency and new home customers...

The fast-diversifying Humberts has set up regional hubs to handle its new homes and land division, in addition to taking on...

Three councils are encouraging local residents to sign a new register which aims to bring more quality homes for sale to...

Hello and welcome to the latest Property Jobs Today, our round-up each Monday of key job moves within estate and letting...

At the start of February, Nationwide suggested that the housing market was picking up. Last week, RICS reported on its continued...

Connells Group - which includes Connells, Sequence and other brands - says it recorded over 9,000 new homes sales in 2017. This...

Right To Buy is unsustainable without local councils being given the right to set discounts for their areas and replacing every...

The latest release of data from the English Housing Survey reveals that the number of under-45s owning their own homes has...

A new national housing agency – Homes England – has been launched by the newly-rebadged Ministry of Housing Communities and Local...

It didn’t take long - within 24 hours of high-flying Tory Dominic Raab being named as housing minister, so there was...

What a year it’s been! Back in 2016 we had Brexit, a new prime minister, Donald Trump’s election, and so when...

A specialist leasehold enfranchisement firm has branded government leasehold reforms as "incredibly weak". In an announcement lost in the noise following Damian Green’s sacking,...

This week, news broke of the ‘first bitcoin homes’ being sold in the UK by Go Move, an estate agency in...

Chris Philp, a Conservative MP and Parliamentary Private Secretary to Chancellor Phillip Hammond, says 50 per cent of new homes in...

Here we are again: another much anticipated Budget has been and gone and, yet, still nothing much has changed! Yes, of course,...

The consumer group HomeOnwers’ Alliance says buyers of new build homes should be able to retain 2.5 per cent of the...

Earlier this week, Chancellor Philip Hammond delivered the Autumn Budget with a strong focus on housing.  The decision to cut stamp duty...

Training for Agents Giving’s Strictly Come Dancing event is now entering its final two weeks - and Estate Agent Today readers...

Housing may have taken centre stage in the Budget but most of the industry appears to remain sceptical of whether the...

The fast-growing Leaders Romans Group now looks set to grow its new homes business. Alison Guyton, currently Leaders’ head of marketing with...

Stamp duty reform for first time buyers has taken pride of place in the Budget speech of Chancellor Phillip Hammond.   From today,...

Another Budget, another pledge of new house building: it appears from statements made over the weekend by Chancellor Phillip Hammond that...

Winter seems to be firmly with us now, if the plunging temperatures are anything to go by. After a ridiculously mild...

New figures out this morning show that house builders registered nearly 38,000 new homes in the UK during the third quarter...

Employers and government should introduce auto-enrolment of monthly salaries to allow people aged 18 to 40 to save for deposits on...

Homes in the most expensive area of England and Wales cost 25 times as much as in the cheapest area, according...

Carter Jonas has made three key appointments to beef up its London team. Simon Scott has joined as an associate partner in...

England faces a growing gulf between new build completions and new households being added to the population according to a new...

Simon Gerrard, a past president of the National Association of Estate Agents, has called on the government to switch the burden...

With party conference season around the corner and the next Budget just a couple of months away, more industry players are...

Estate Agent Today understands that Spicerhaart is in the final stages of talks to acquire major regional independent firm butters john...

The government says the number of new build homes that have started to be built has surged to the highest level...

Savills has reported strong figures for the first half of 2017 across its worldwide activities, but its UK residential divisions have...

Marsh & Parsons will be opening a new office in Islington on September 4 - defying many analysts who say the...

A detailed analysis of the UK housing market by The Economist suggest many reasons lie behind the slump in property transactions...

A City analyst has fuelled speculation that Rightmove has a goal to increase its monthly average revenue from each agency from...

In its latest report to shareholders, Rightmove has revealed yet more growth in agent numbers, traffic to its website, revenue per...

There has been general support from the industry for the government’s apparent intention to ban new homes in England being sold...

The government has published the findings of research which suggest that very few local opponents to new homes will be bought...

For those of us working within the property sector, we’re in the very midst of what, for generations, has been one...

Government schemes like Help To Buy, supposedly assisting more people get on the ladder, have little impact on improving social mobility...

Haus Properties - the estate agency set up by former Apprentice finalist Jamie Lester, who quit the company suddenly last year...

A network which helps estate agents win more instructions in the land and new homes sector is launching a lead generation...

“Housing policy should be in independent hands.” That was the conclusion of a panel debate that Andrews held, not recently, but two...

The housing industry has responded with shock, joy, and jitters, after Theresa May’s snap general election went catastrophically wrong, leaving her...

The UK's largest estate agency has announced a series of internal promotions, bolstering its senior leadership team. Yesterday evening Countrywide confirmed that...

Theresa May’s call for a snap general election on June 8 took many by surprise. But estate agents have been broadly...

The Green Party, one of the final political groups to launch their manifesto for the June 8 General Election, wants an end...

The Liberal Democrats have set a building target of 300,000 new homes a year, have pledged to scrap housing association Right...

Since the seventies, housing starts and completions across England and Wales have been on a downward trajectory. The long run average...

I wrote last month about how the Government, in introducing a 3% stamp duty surcharge on second homes, had scored an...

More than three quarters of developers want to see the government go into reverse on its stamp duty and mortgage interest...

The number of new homes built in London will reach record levels in 2017, according to high-end agency Savills - but...

A group campaigning for the reform of money laundering and other accountability laws claims that billions of pounds worth of investment...

The results of a survey conducted by the Home Builders Federation has been attacked by consumer group, the HomeOwners Alliance. For over...

Concern is growing over the stagnation in transactions in London generally and in prime central areas in particular. Consultancy JLL says there...

A scheme of eight individual apartments in Leamington Spa has sold out in just four hours. Estate agency ehB Residential sold all...

A year ago, we were days away from the introduction of a 3% stamp duty surcharge on second homes – a...

Savills has revealed relatively strong figures for 2016 in its report to the City this morning, with group revenue up 13...

The Competition and Markets Authority is to review the operation of new home structural warranties issued by the National House Building...

We’re almost nine months on from the EU Referendum and yet the issue remains the big divide across the nation: an...

It seems prop-tech is exploding at a scary rate, and the latest brands are all trying to grab our attention by...

Chancellor Philip Hammond delivered his first Budget this week pledging extra funding for the NHS, transport in the Midlands and the...

It has been a busy week for investment in PropTech businesses and no doubt you have already got reading fatigue about...

A chronic shortage of affordable housing is forcing councils to spend more than £2m a day on temporary accommodation for homeless...

Jason Howes, the regional director for land and new homes at Barnard Marcus, has extended his role to lead the Fox...

Rightmove has released its figures for 2016 and as predicted they show the portal streaking ahead of all rivals. It reports record...

A trade publication claims the UK’s statistics watchdog is to hold talks with a Whitehall department about the government’s much-vaunted 'one...

Connells Group’s mortgage services wing has recorded a 10 per cent increase in the number of mortgages in 2016 and has generated...

Marsh & Parsons has expanded its Residential Development & Investment team - just one of a number of agencies to announce...

Connells Group says its Land and New Homes divisions enjoyed record performances in 2016.  The group, which includes Connells and Sequence along...

The East Midlands, which consists of several areas including Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, and much of Lincolnshire, has an ancient...

Excuse the puntastic (or not) title, but as you’ve no doubt already deciphered I took a trip northwards a couple of...

If you work in lettings, I’ll already have a pretty good idea on how you feel about the current Conservative Government.  The...

The chronic shortage of housing supply in the UK relative to demand has been a national issue for decades. The Government...

Grant Shapps, housing minister between 2010 and 2012, has said the measures in the current government’s White Paper are not bold...

The government’s attitude of “Nanny knows best” has “squandered another opportunity” to make a real difference to the housing crisis, according...

Whisper it quietly but it appears that NIMBY-ism is on the wane as increasing numbers of voters are recognising the need...

There's bad news for the government in the form of house building targets on the eve of its long-awaited Housing White...

First details of the long-awaited Housing White Paper have emerged in stories in newspapers frequently used by government to float ideas. The...

Housing minister Gavin Barwell says the government will provide “substantial investment” to ensure more transparency in leasehold tenure. “We are determined to...

Brexit and the economic uncertainty since the EU Referendum have not prevented Connells delivering overall growth in 2016 - despite a...

The Advertising Standards Authority has stepped in following a complaint about the website for property developer Keepmoat. The ASA says that the...

Lots of people buy new-build due to the perceived lack of hassle with maintenance, as they are built to the latest...

Over 168,000 new homes were completed in the year to March 2016, according to data released by the government, over 15,500...

Instant gratification is nothing new. It’s been around for millennia. It’s an in-built survival instinct for humans – that want, that...

The East of England, which takes in areas from Hertfordshire to Norfolk, has recorded the biggest hike in property prices over...

Sawyer & Co., an agency operating sales and lettings in Brighton and Hove, is the latest firm to be chosen to...

Property Service Holdings - parent company of the 150 branches trading under the Romans and Leaders names - has signed up...

As the wait goes on for the government’s White Paper on Housing, due this month, one funding organisation has suggested that...

Now I’m not one to lose sleep over politicians, but it strikes me that Communities Secretary Sajid Javid and Housing Minister...

A new body set up to forge links between developers and estate agents has spoken up in favour of the government’s...

The government’s blizzard of New Year announcements about new homes has received a distinctly frosty welcome from many within the property...

Estate Agent Today understands that butters john bee - the independent agency where former Countrywide head of estate agency Bob Scarff...

After years of surveys suggesting the UK’s new-build homes were getting smaller, and may even be the smallest in much of...

2017 is set to be the first year since 2008 that the UK constructs 200,000 new homes, suggests Redrow, one of...

Following a strong start to 2016, particularly in the lower to middle range of the UK housing market, that lasted up...

Humberts says it is throwing its weight behind a fledgling organisation set up to bring estate agencies and new-build developers together...

With little more than 10 days to go before we all down tools for a well-earned Christmas break - even if...

House prices will stall in 2017 and there won’t by any significant improvement in affordability for many hard-pressed buyers - but...

Zoopla Property Group's estate agency membership grew five per cent and its property listing inventory was up 10 per cent in...

In case you missed it yesterday, here’s a summary of everything relating to property that was in Chancellor Phillip Hammond’s Autumn...

Phillip Hammond has delivered his first Autumn Statement, tackling amongst other things, what he called “the housing challenge.” The speech made no...

The Daily Mail has calculated which of the 13 housing ministers in office before this autumn has been the most successful,...

It may still be too early to start compiling a Christmas wish list, but it is the right time to provide...

Another agency has opened an office in the troubled Nine Elms scheme in central London - this time the new entrant...

As many northern cities struggled to recover from the 2008 global financial crisis, the north-south divide returned to plague the British...

A campaign group says it wants to state the case for more new homes in a county which until now has...

It is a tedious fact, but the housing market is underpinned by economic fundamentals. This won’t be a surprise.  However, at a...

Estate agents are already setting out their stalls ahead of Chancellor Phillip Hammond’s November 23 Autumn Statement with one simple message...

Some of this week’s headlines - ‘Firms must list foreign workers’ and ‘NHS to no longer rely on foreign doctors’ -...

Property sales and lettings agency William H Brown, part of the Sequence UK network, has acquired Porter Glenny estate agents in...

There has been widespread scepticism from many within the industry that the government will miss its latest house building targets, despite...

Some of London’s ailing new homes schemes may have been thrown a lifeline by the decision of technology giant Apple to occupy...

An agency specialising in land and planning claims that campaigners in favour of maintaining the green belt must accept that some...

The government's most publicised measure of housebuilding excludes around a fifth of all new build completions each year, according to a...

Two high profile property firms have strengthened their land and new homes teams in order to cope with growing demand in...

With the number of new homes being built across the UK still significantly below the level needed to meet demand, housebuilders...

The government’s housing policy, while helpful outside London, has had a negative effect on the capital according to one of the...

The credit crunch may have been the economic backdrop against which much of the housing market performance of the past 10...

Ed Mead, one of the most high profile estate agents in the industry, is leaving London agency Douglas and Gordon to...

A campaign has been launched to make Bristol the colour capital of the UK by ensuring that more homes are painted...

The industry publication Property Week says it has exclusively discovered that the government is preparing a housing market stimulus package to...

Several agencies have unveiled expansion plans despite the EU referendum, economic uncertainty and fears of a major downturn in the London...

Rentplus, a business providing Rent To Buy homes, has announced that it has new funding of £20m - on top of...

This week, 25 years ago the world's first website went live to those of us who were around then.  Amazingly, despite the...

The morning after the EU referendum, and Westminster, Britain, Europe and the world were left in shock at the news that...

A housing body says that, rather than presiding over a worsening housing crisis as many suggest, David Cameron has actually left...

London agency Stirling Ackroyd says planning consents for new homes recovered from previous lows in the second quarter of the year,...

Older readers may recall a terrific movie called Network where a character, disillusioned by life, shouts from a window: “I’m as...

Plans for the Northern Powerhouse scheme, designed to rival London and the South East as the main driver of economic growth...

Property prices were at the forefront of the EU debate in the run-up to the referendum, with the now former Chancellor...

Sheffield in South Yorkshire, which was once one of the leading industrial cities in Britain and is still recognised for its...

What a month it has been. By the time you read this, we'll have a new Prime Minister, a new Cabinet,...

One of the first major pieces of research to come from an estate agency following the EU referendum suggests the short-term...

The news that Theresa May will be installed as Prime Minister tomorrow has immediately stabilished the share prices of estate agents...

With the new Formula One season now well underway, we delve into the fast lane to take you on a whirlwind...

One of the many estate agencies hoping to market increasing numbers of new homes has been praised by a developer client...

Humberts is introducing what it calls a ‘personal assistant’ for retirees in a bid to woo the growing market of elderly...

Members of the property industry join the rest of the country in going to the polls today to decide whether the...

Property software supplier VTUK is the latest to warn that a Brexit could have a damaging effect on the supply of...

The sense of gathering momentum for the Leave campaign ahead of the upcoming EU referendum is causing high levels of uncertainty...

An estate agency chief operating in an area where there are high levels of holiday home ownership has stood up for...

Berkeley Group, which has given a trading report to the City, says reservations for its new homes are down 20 per...

A leading land agent has criticised those doubting the government's ability to build a million new homes by 2020. Adam Hesse, land...

The National Association of Estate Agents and Association of Residential Letting Agents say that although there are no conclusive ‘leave’ or...

The new mayor of London Sadiq Khan has pledged to do all in his power to help make London “better” after...

Estate agency Connells says the buoyant start to 2016 created by investors trying to beat the April stamp duty deadline may...

The race to replace London Mayor Boris Johnson has entered its final few days, and like never before, housing is the...

Curchods, the privately-owned, 21-branch Surrey agency which also trades as Burns and Webber has appointed a new group managing director. Michael Ansell...

Estate Agent Today can reveal that Bob Scarff, the head of Countrywide’s estate agency business until last May, has become a...

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the free market Centre for Policy Studies think tank says the proposals put forward by Labour’s London Mayor candidate...

Countrywide has taken another step into the residential development mortgage market by acquiring Mortgage Bureau, which works with national house builders as...

An academic study claims that increasing the supply of new-build properties - widely thought to be the favoured solution to the...

Property industry recruitment firm Macdonald & Company has expanded its residential division with three new appointments.  Christopher Humphrey and Keeleigh Goodridge join...

Despite being round the block quite a few times in the property world, it was only in 2008 that the importance...

Research from a residential investment consultancy throws light on the extraordinary large pipeline of new homes to be built in central London,...

Morgan Stanley says fears over a possible UK exit from the EU and other global economic uncertainty could lead to “a...

Countrywide has rebranded its land and new homes team as Countrywide Residential Development and has announced a raft of new senior...

Uncertainty before the EU Referendum could lead to fewer house sales and reduce the number of new homes being built warns...

What are we going to do about Generation Rent? Only as recently as February 2016 did tenants steal the headline away...

A detailed analysis by Hometrack reveals that new-build transactions - running at roughly 10 per cent of all house sales for...

Who are you? Chris Coates What does it say on your business card? Chris Coates As a small team we don’t have a hang up...

The government claims 43 per cent of new homes built since the introduction of the Help to Buy equity loan scheme...

As we all know, Peter Redfern is critical to the future of the British housing market and.... What? Wait? You don’t know...

A trading statement from London agency Foxtons shows group turnover up four per cent in 2015 to £150m - but that...

A suggestion that up to 50 per cent of new homes built in London should be affordable has come in for...

The Modern House, the London firm which calls itself “the UK’s first design-focused estate agency” is now selling units on volume...

In January readers of Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today were given the opportunity to give their views on proposed...

Countrywide has continued its acquisition programme by taking over a company consulting with house builders in the Home Counties and London.  The acquisition...

The latest government house price index from the Office for National Statistics shows that house prices across the UK rose by...

In an unexpected announcement, the government says it will "directly commission" companies to build up to 13,000 new affordable homes on...

Online estate agency easyProperty is marking the start of 2016 by launching a Land and New Homes division. “It’s obviously one of...

The scores are in: Estate Agent Today has collated forecasts from 10 of the leading estate agency corporates and major business...

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned an advertisement from a property company selling new homes in East London, after it was...

Countrywide has taken the unusual step, for an estate agency group, of stepping into next year’s London mayoral election by setting...

The week before Christmas last year was the busiest week for housing completions at any time in 2012, 2013 and 2014...

The scores are in: here are the top 10 high-end agencies and property analysts' predictions for what 2016 has in store...

In many respects 2015 has been a good year. Despite global challenges, we have seen a marked improvement in the UK...

The latest market survey from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors shows that the stock of homes on sale with agents...

I’m sure I’m not the only estate agent confused by the Government’s approach to residential property ownership. Many of the current ministerial...

More than half of the new homes being built today are not big enough to meet the needs of the people...

Zoopla Property Group is reporting record figures to the City and claims it has seen “continuous agency growth since May” as...

There’s been shock and anger from agents - especially those in London - at the surprise news of an additional three...

- From April 2016 buy to let landlords and people buying second or holiday homes will have to pay an additional...

George Osborne has announced a shock additional 3.0 per cent stamp duty on second homes and buy to let properties. Details are...

So this weekend some of us will see our first snow of the season. Harsh weather, Christmas adverts and winter generally...

Over the next five years at least 70,000 new households a year in England alone will be unable to afford to...

The residents of a housing estate in Northamptonshire have gone to a local newspaper to dispute what they claim is an...

I make no apologies for returning to Build To Rent, the institutional investment in building and managing blocks of flats to...

The sales market may be troubled by a sharp stock shortage and the rental sector bogged down with a flurry of...

It’s been revealed that the National Home Building Council has been helping the National Association of Estate Agents with a toolkit...

The founder of high-end shirt manufacturer Charles Tyrwhitt, Nick Wheeler, and the well-known stand up comedian Tim Vine, are amongst the...

Scotland’s home building industry says at least 100,000 homes of all tenures are needed by the end of the next Scottish...

House builders say portals are vital generators of leads, especially for drawing in buyers who are not ‘brand loyal’ to one...

Property journalists, and more than a few estate agents, are beginning their annual autumn ritual – forecasting what’s going to happen...

On Wednesday 21st October future and reality will collide. Back to the Future’s Marty McFly will arrive in the DeLorean to...

Watch the latest weekly video round-up of news from Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today, featuring stories on the controversial...

Watch the latest weekly video round-up of news from Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today, featuring stories on the controversial...

Two more agencies have set up new home divisions - a barometer of how they anticipate residential development becoming a bigger...

The government is telling councils to produce local plans for new homes in their area by 2017 – or Whitehall will...

Marsh & Parsons has expanded its residential development and investment department with the appointment of David Duke as Director of Residential...

There has been a mixed response from the agency world to David Cameron's pledge to reform planning, promise that 200,000 new...

Strutt & Parker has acquired Edwards & Elliott, a Surrey and Berkshire-based sales and lettings agency with offices in Ascot, Sunningdale...

The newly-appointed shadow housing minister says his first priority is to arrest the long-term fall in home ownership in Britain. John Healey...

More downsizing could release almost three million homes into the market according to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. Its latest policy...

Despite seeing the word in many industry pieces, using ‘crisis’ to describe anything related to the UK housing market at present...

If there’s one thing that looks like a good move right now, it’s becoming a letting agent.  Whereas some years ago we...

Data from Countrywide Group shows the potential volatility that exists in the much-discussed Prime Central London housing market, simply because of...

Another 1.4m homes could be built across London if councils make better use of land and if local authority planners allowed...

New research from Countrywide reveals the homes built on the Green Belt surrounding towns and cities over the last 20 years...

Controversial housing charity Shelter has published a report which claims that the government's Starter Homes scheme will fail the people it...

There were over 131,000 housebuilding completions in the past year, according to the latest government data. The figure represents a 15% increase...

Every week we publicise the efforts of estate agents and property professionals who have been working extra hard in the name...

Statistics have been published to suggest that much of Britain’s housing crisis is down to a shortage of skilled labour and...

Housing minister has Brandon Lewis has thrown his weight behind the right of foreign investors to purchase buy to let properties,...

JLL today opens its eighth residential office in London, this one at at the Riverlight development in Nine Elms.  The office, which...

The imbalance of supply and demand in the housing market “will lead to even stronger price gains over the next 12...

How do you best sum up the current market status quo? Given the specific regional nature of the housing market in...

The Connells Group has announced pre-tax profits of £27.3m for the first half of 2015 and forecasts a record full-year of...

Islington’s Labour-controlled council has adopted pioneering new planning measures that require new homes in the borough to be regularly occupied in...

Estate agents have given an enthusiastic endorsement to Chancellor George Osborne’s proposals to help boost housing building totals through changes to...

The march of the high-end national agency chains continues with news that Strutt & Parker has snapped up the two-office Buckinghamshire...

A developer is proposing to launch 345 new-build flats at Canary Wharf with a policy of selling to UK buyers before...

Given that I wrote my last article on the day of the General Election but well before the result was known,...

Hamptons International is opening an Earlsfield & Southfield branch in south-west London, taking its network to 86 offices in the capital...

A number of UK estate agents have announced further expansion and investment. Lincolnshire agency Pygott and Crone, winner of Sunday Times Estate...

Now that the General Election results have been counted and verified, and now that a new parliament has been sworn in,...

The  new government has announced its legislative plans for housing in the coming year.  In the first all-Conservative Queen’s Speech since 1996,...

The demand for homes in the capital remained robust during Q1 2015, according to Chestertons’ London Prime Residential Report for spring...

There has been much debate in recent years about Britain’s desperate need for more housing stock. Demand has been outstripping supply...

This week RICS reported a further drop in the number of people putting their homes up for sale; new instructions fell...

Auction house Allsop is launching the country’s first ever online-only auction for new build homes - and claims it's a first. The...

Seniors’ group Saga is to handle initial enquiries from buyers of new homes on a development in Wiltshire - thought to...

Watch the latest weekly video roundup of news from Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today, featuring stories on Ed Miliband's...

There's bad news for Britain’s politicians who are using house-building targets as policy objectives in the election - over two thirds...